This is something I often observe in our local woods. Here will be a
colony of Erythronium americanum manifesting nothing but leaves, and there
not far away will be another colony, less foliose but quite floriferous,
often with multiple scapes per plant. Genes? Environment? Time to
experiment.
Russell
At 08:09 AM 4/24/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Erythronium americanum. Here's where I go into my perpetual "I'm
>glad I'm not a taxonomist" mode. There are large patches of the
>usual somewhat squinny mottled foliage with an occasional flower.
>Then there are large patches of large foliage with lots of large
>flowers, buff/ tan reverse to the petals, yellow interior.
Russell Stafford
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